New Year treats were laden all over the table. Weird chocolates whose brands I never heard of, some crackers, chocolates, shell coated Smarties lookalikes,, lollipops and jelly beans. Oh, I love jelly beans so much ever since I ate some Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans sample together with a Chocolate Frog sample I got last time when Harry Potter first hit the cinemas, that was a very long time ago. Argh, I can't help myself, I took a few, as sweet as I remembered, although I'm definitely going to regret it once my waistline increases. D:
The first day I came back, one of my colleagues asked me to take over following the anaest, well, okay, sure thing. I'm happy to do so. When I got in, I didn't realize it's going to take forever to get out. First of all, the patient, she's super paranoid. Second, she's a lawyer. Third, I say she watches too much thrillers. She kept asking a lot of irrelevant questions and stuff, here's a list:
- Who's the doctor going to be in charge?
- Is the same anaest going to be there?
- What kind of painkillers are you going to give me? I want the names.
- Will you please be gentle with me?
- No, I don't want a needle now! Can't you do it once I'm fully sedated?
- You all, please, treat me GENTLE okay? I bruise easily.
- I'm so pale. Is it my diagnosis causing me this?
- Why can't you give me a 100% guarantee?
- I hate needles. Do dead bodies jump out from the body bags? Cause I like watching CSI you know. And I saw how they cut and dice and the corpses jump.
- Do I really have to do an ECG? It hurts, doesn't it?
- Why do I need all the TED stockings? Can't I just not wear it?
Clearly, I think CSI had really made her got the whole wrong idea. Personally, I don't watch shows like CSI, ER, all those crime scene shows where they do autopsies, I'm more of a Grimm person, where things are related to paranormals. I know, I used to watch CSI as well on AXN, even a few bits of medical line related shows, and Law & Order, but CSI tends to exaggerate. I often winced and shut my eyes as they do autopsies and all the gruesome bits. I hate those kinds of shows. They exaggerate. Besides, the reason why things often exaggerate is to sell the series. It's okay to watch it for entertainment, but don't take it too seriously. Sigh. I love Grimm, but you don't see me shrieking that dead bodies came back to life or something. (Wouldn't I be screwed? xD)
Among all of the lawyers I had treated, she's the most weird one. Even we medical staffs never ask into such details. The main things we do ask : Risks, the complications, will it affect out daily living functions? I swear to God, I spent an hour plus together with the anaest in her room to the point that it's only until 4 that I did a quick round of my patients. Thank God they are the same patients so they are used to seeing my face.
After that things were rather slow, only hourly observations, routine observations, intravenous drips and attending to patients' requests were the only thing that kept me going. But in between, I had also finally managed to complete the chapter which had taken me so long to complete. Oh yeah, something is going my way. :D
When I mentioned the lawyer drama with my dad, he gave a snort and said, "I told you lawyers aren't good people." Sigh, I will never get the lawyer thing with my dad. I mean, I got friends who are lawyers, and I met several lawyer patients, and they are all nice, even alright patients. One day, I think I'm going to pry the story out of him, about why he's so against lawyers.
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